Title: Growing turmoil in an “advanced” state: Gujarat
Abstract: Gujarat is one of India's more prosperous states. Both governmental and political processes in Gujarat used to be relatively stable, but that stability became tenuous in the early 1970s. Violence as a tool to effect political change was rare in the 1970s, but that changed in the 1980s. In 1981, and again in 1985, politics in Gujarat came to be characterized by riots, arson, and other kinds of planned violence, and there was a growing sense that the state's capacity to govern had declined sharply. Whereas the dominant image of Gujarat politics in the 1960s was one of gentility, growing conflict and turmoil characterized the 1980s.
Publication Year: 1991
Publication Date: 1991-04-26
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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